Outlaw Desert Village. (Tomasito photo)
People do live in the strangest places.
Lucky for us tourists and travelers--because if some people didn't live a sort of camp-out life beside the highway in the remote deserts--there would be no-one to pump the gas or sell the beer!
The above photo shows a clutch of the mobile-type temporary dwellings of today's free desert people--nothing wasted--nothing around but the most basic shelter and transport--it looks pretty jumbled and jivey but see? There's no trash on the ground or visible garbage (or people)--just the essentials for living.
The residents are in the market/station peacefully looting the few stray travelers--like us.
I call them outlaws because they live outside the usual normal prosaic common lifeways of the crass majority. They make their own rules and are free to live as they choose as long as they don't break society's big rules too blatantly. They are kind of like the hopeful weeds that come through the cracks in the pavement.
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